Incidentally, at least here in the states, I think the problem is that no one recognizes a contender in the search field to step up to the plate. Google started out doing search better than anyone else and has managed to hang on to that fuzzy feeling even though they do not actually do it better any longer. But with whom to replace them? Russia has Yandex, Asia gets Baidu...what do we have? Give it another 2 years...I think the face of search will start to change.

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Vijay Pattisapu wrote:

::I wonder if this is similar to how some of the Western leftists of the::50s/60s/70s supported the USSR ;-)::::Being not-Microsoft doesn't keep Google from being another giant corporation::running out of innovative steam.::::Vijay

Incidentally, at least here in the states, I think the problem is that no one recognizes a contender in the search field to step up to the plate. Google started out doing search better than anyone else and has managed to hang on to that fuzzy feeling even though they do not actually do it better any longer. But with whom to replace them? Russia has Yandex, Asia gets Baidu...what do we have? Give it another 2 years...I think the face of search will start to change.